Sources of Funding

Agencies and foundations to which we have submitted proposals include:

 

 

Services Overview – For-profit and Non-profit

• Funding Opportunity map. Draw up list of client's disease targets. Qualify as to internal strategic importance, and as to whether preliminary data is available. Search and identify potential sources of funding. Prioritize as to amount of funding available, likelihood of success, and calendar when proposals may be submitted.
• Prepare pathfinder documentation. Prepare white paper, abstract, Preproposal, Letter of Intent, or executive summary as appropriate for and requested by each funding source. When possible, engage Program Managers to pre-qualify opportunities. Write once, and "clone" pathfinder document to save time and money.
• Prepare grants. Work as "grants on call" team with company scientists and management to position grant proposals to
  
  • Consider and shape scope of Specific Aims to grant
  • Edit and/or aggregate existing materials
  • Write entire selected sections, for example, Background and Significance, military relevance statement, economic impact statement, Research Plan, and/or
  • Prepare budgets, budget justification, BioSketches

Additional services for for-profit companies

• Prepare pathfinder presentations. Prepare posters and/or PowerPoint presentations for discussions with Program Managers and/or investors.
• Write business plans. Prepare business plan in written form or PowerPoint format to include a strategy for accessing non-dilutive capital.
• Program management. Post-award, guide the set-up of project accounting systems. Act as hands-on project manager to keep effort on track to reach milestones. Prepare technical progress reports as requested by funding source.
• QTDP - Qualifying Therapeutic Development Project Tax Credit 2010. As part of the Affordable Care Act, Congress made a tax credit available to qualifying for-profit organizations. We prepared the Project Information Memorandum and guided preparation of Form 8942.